Gov't touts internet record despite telecom bill concerns
Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-touts-internet-record-despite-telecom-bill-concerns
New gov’t task force continues illegal-logging raids
Authorities raided yet another rubber plantation on tuesday as part of a new dragnet to catch illegal loggers in eastern Cambodia, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-govt-task-force-continues-illegal-logging-raids-105901/
Time to outgrow garment manufacturing, gov’t advisor says
As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21466/time-to-outgrow-garment-manufacturing--gov---t-advisor-says/
Illegal construction sites surge almost 40 percent: Gov’t
The number of consTrucTion siTes wiThouT permiTs rose almosT 40 percenT in The capiTal lasT year, wiTh officials and realTors puTTing This down To a lack of undersTanding of regulaTions. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21906/illegal-construction-sites-surge-almost-40-percent--gov---t/
Gov’t may hire wing to collect tax revenue
The governmenT is considering appoinTing Wing (Cambodia) LimiTed, a specialised bank and mobile paymenT company, as a designaTed agenT To collecT Tax revenues, The MinisTry of Economy and Finance announced yesTerday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-may-hire-wing-collect-tax-revenue
Tea Banh’s sons given top gov’t jobs
As the government fends off continued accusations of nepotism within its institutions, a royal decree issued in early March revealed the appointment of four official assistants to four-star general and deputy prime minister tea Banh, two of whom are the general’s own sons. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24491/tea-banh---s-sons-given-top-gov---t-jobs/
Gov’t pledges to step up land titling pace
The governmenT yesTerday vowed To finish disTribuTing all land TiTles currenTly under consideraTion by 2020.In a speech, Im Chhun Lim, The minisTer of Land ManagemenT, Urban Planning and ConsTrucTion, said The governmenT was commiTTed To improving land securiTy in Cambodia in iTs bid To address ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-pledges-step-land-titling-pace
Slight dip in rice yields ‘won’t affect exports’
As the harvest of wet-season rice ends this month, a report from the Ministry of Agriculture says the yield will fall slightly below the target but this will not affect exports. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17674/slight-dip-in-rice-yields----won---t-affect-exports---/
Gov’t takes back Phnom Kulen from CPP lawmaker
The EnvironmenT MinisTry has revoked The righTs of a company owned by governmenT lawmaker and Tycoon Sieng Nam To manage The Kulen MounTain ResorT in The Preah BaT Jayavarman-Nordom NaTional Park in Siem Reap province, saying The move was in The naTional inTeresT. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19006/gov---t-takes-back-phnom-kulen-from-cpp-lawmaker/
Report shows improved gov’t response to human trafficking
The NaTional CommiTTee on CombaTing Human Trafficking released iTs annual reporT yesTerday, wiTh figures showing an improved efforT by auThoriTies since 2014 To crackdown on The Trade. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21924/report-shows-improved-gov---t-response-to-human-trafficking/
Gov’t ready to ink tax treaty with Singapore
Cambodia and Singapore have finalised an agreement on double taxation and are set to sign it into effect soon, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-ready-ink-tax-treaty-singapore
US delegation urges gov’t to speed up reform
Cambodia must accelerate economic reform and develop a sense of “urgency” if it wishes to continue to attract American investment amid growing regional competition, the head of the US-ASEAN Business Council said yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/us-delegation-urges-govt-speed-reform
Don’t mention South China Sea, government tells Asean
The NaTional Assembly will peTiTion Asean officials To remove a reference To The SouTh China Sea mariTime dispuTe from an upcoming joinT sTaTemenT, officials confirmed on Tuesday, a move some analysTs and diplomaTs say will again ThreaTen regional cohesion. ...
Khuon Narim and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dont-mention-south-china-sea-government-tells-asean-117083/
Gov’t agro production project nets $36.3M
The MinisTry of Economy and Finance secured a $36.3 million concessionary loan from The UN’s InTernaTional Fund for AgriculTural DevelopmenT (IFAD) program aimed aT acceleraTing The producTion of small-scale agriculTural producTs including rice, vegeTables, poTaToes, silk and livesTock, according To a minisTry release yesTerday. ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-agro-production-project-nets-363m
US envoy’s appeal won’t spur negotiations: CPP
Prime Minister Hun Sen has no plans to negotiate with his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterparts, a ruling party spokesman reiterated yesterday, following calls for intra-party talks last week by a senior US diplomat. ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-envoys-appeal-wont-spur-negotiations-cpp
Gov't Official Says UN Envoy's Reports Favor Opposition
Om Yentieng, president of the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee, yesterday accused U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi of pandering to the opposition party and trying to stifle the work of the national court system through his examination of Cambodia’s rights situation. Mr. Yentieng, who also heads the Anti-Corruption ...
Bunong Say They Don't Want Private Land Titles
Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. this way they may instead to eligible for a communal title ...
Agreement to protect maids needs strengthening, Gov't says
A draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) drawn up by Malaysia to regulate maids working in the country does not sufficiently protect their rights and needs improvements, an official at the Labor Ministry said on thursday. Malaysian officials drew up the MoU between the two governments following ...
Evicted M’kiri Families Can’t Afford Trip Home
Some of the 200 families evicted from a village in Mondolkiri province’s Koh Nhek district last week said yesterday that they were taking up temporary residence in nearby villages and forests because they could not afford to go home, or had no land to return ...
Justice Ministry Won’t Press Court Over Jailed 13
The MinisTry of JusTice will noT press The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT To review The case of 13 Boeng Kak residenTs senTenced To jail lasT monTh for demonsTraTing againsT a CPP senaTor’s real esTaTe projecT, despiTe asking The courT To consider releasing The women. Now ThaT ...